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On 10 February 2022, a working arrangement between the EPPO and the Hellenic National Transparency Authority (NTA) was concluded. The arrangement provides for an improved structured framework for cooperation in accordance with the existing applicable legislation. The arrangement sets out inter alia:The modalities …

On 2 February 2022, the EPPO signed a working agreement with the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary. The arrangement will enable the EPPO to use the so-called “Judicial Neutral Point” – a service network with applications and databases of the General Council. The …

On 27 January 2022, European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi voiced concerns over planned amendments to the statute of limitations in the Slovenian criminal law. The comments came when the Slovenian Prosecutor-General visited Kövesi and her two deputies. The EPPO is worried about the hampering of …

This news item summarises the operational activities that the EPPO carried out in the first three months of 2022.

In its judgments of 22 February 2022 in the Joined Cases C-562/21 PPU and C-563/21 PPU, the CJEU upheld its case-law on the refusal of European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) issued by Polish authorities if the requested person put forward infringements of fair trial. The …

January 2022 saw the start of the new EMPACT cycle 2022-2025 to fight organised and serious international crime. In March 2022, the French Council Presidency outlined the impacts of the war in Ukraine on the EMPACT policy.

On 25 March 2022, the European Commission announced that a preliminary political agreement had been reached on the principles of the future framework for transatlantic data flows. New negotiations with the U.S. government had become necessary after the CJEU toppled the predecessor agreement, the EU-US …

The ongoing rollout of biometric identification systems is likely to see ethnic minority citizens and non-citizens subjected to a growing number of unwarranted intrusions into their everyday activities, says a report by Statewatch, published in February 2022.

In a resolution of 10 March 2022, the EP calls on the Commission to take urgent action and immediately apply the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism. On 5 April 2022, Commission President von der Leyen told that the conditionality mechanism will be applied vis-à-vis Hungary.

On 2 March 2022, the European Commission published guidelines on the application of Regulation 2020/2092 setting out the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (the “Conditionality Regulation”). The guidelines explain more clearly and precisely how the Commission will apply the Regulation.